China’s central government has intensified its crackdown on Christianity in recent months by pressuring local government officials to keep a count on the number of citizens who believe in God and to monitor them, according to a new report.
China’s central government has intensified its crackdown on Christianity in recent months by pressuring local government officials to keep a count on the number of citizens who believe in God and to monitor them, according to a new report.
Authorities in China have added “illegal business activities” to the subversion charge against pastor Wang Yi and have coerced congregation members to falsely accuse him, according to advocacy and media reports.
The Trump administration took a three-pronged approach this week to addressing religious liberty violations around the world, and it aimed much of its critique at a global superpower: China.
Children in China’s primary schools are now being taught that belief in God is abnormal and that parents who are religious should not be trusted, according to a report out of the country.
When the Communist Party took over mainland China in 1949, there were an estimated 5 million Christians. Three-plus decades of severe persecution under Mao nearly succeeded in eradicating Chinese Christianity.
Two members of a church raided by Chinese authorities have fled to Taiwan and are now speaking out about the country’s crackdown on Christianity.
A new BBC report gives an inside look into China’s “thought transformation” camps, where men and women are “re-educated.”
A huge group of demonstrators stormed Hong Kong’s legislative building in protest against a new extradition bill which would see criminals face prosecution in mainland China. Many Christians have felt in fear for their lives in light of the now-suspended bill, due to China having some of the most restrictive religious freedom laws on earth.
Evidence suggests that Muslim Uighurs have joined Falun Gong practitioners on the list of China's involuntary donors. And it’s hard to imagine that Christians will not soon be added to that list, unless something changes.
Chinese officials beat and arrested a pastor and also demolished his church after he refused to remove a cross atop the building, according to a religious liberty watchdog.
